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Charge or release. Them’s your options. We have heard it before. In fact, if word documents had predictive text, that might well be our default sentence here at Amnesty. When you hear about people currently being held in detention, in...
When we started talking about the sleepout action last month, I was honestly not quite sure what to expect. Were students going to brave the cold to sleep out in the streets? Would they manage to raise awareness about the right to work...
(Chinese Human RightsDefenders, March 8, 2011)International Women’s Day presentsan opportunity to recognize boththe important role that women playin the Chinese rights defense ( weiquan ) movementas well as the persecution facedby...
Happy 100th International Women’s Day! A day when the world both celebrates the economic and social progress of women and girls globally, and stops to consider whether gender equality has been achieved. According to today’s Daily Mail...
As the financial markets fret increasingly about the impact of Middle East protests on Saudi Arabia and the knock-on effects on oil supply and western diplomacy in the region, it’s important to remember that the country has people as...